Even when we don’t have a live vacancy, we are interested in talking to those who believe they have something to offer Status Social, so please get in touch!

We currently have no live vacancies but read below to find out more about the type of person we do look for.

Social Media Manager

Main responsibilities:

– To manage the social media campaigns (primarily on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram) for us and our clients. This will include writing engaging content, developing leads, social media customer service, conducting research using social media, meeting clients, analysing campaigns and writing reports.

You must:

– Be a creative writer who loves winning others over through your words.

– Be organised and able to manage your own time and workload effectively.

– Be able to multitask, respond well to change and work in a sometimes unpredictable environment.

– Be able to build relationships with our clients, being confident on the telephone and in person.

– Be prepared to work at a level of excellence at all times.

– Have a demonstrable passion for digital media.

You hopefully will:

– Have knowledge and experience of using a variety of social media platforms.

– Have creative writing skills.

– Be confident with Word and Excel.

– Have experience of marketing.

You definitely, definitely will:

Hold firm to the Status Social values of being ethical, honest, accurate, creative, plain speaking, team-working and having fun; and embrace excellence and our system of open feedback.

These values are the backbone of our business. We will talk to you about them during our interview process.

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Our mission:

We are a Giving Business which expresses itself in three ways:

1) Giving to our clients, potential clients and other business contacts.

In an industry full of people and organisations offering poor-quality social media services, we are determined to provide excellence in what we do. All our campaigns are strictly measured according to our clients’ business objectives – one of the reasons why we know we have generated more than £1m through social media.

2) Giving to our team.

We don’t see Status Social as just a place to work, but as an environment which will shape our employees now and for the future. We are a values-led business and we expect everyone to be challenged by the values and to develop through working in line with them. Through this, we have developed team members who are not only confident in what they do but who trust each other and are able to work open and honestly together. We also allow team members to come in to the office an hour later if they take part in exercise during that time and none of our staff are allowed to work on their birthday.

3) Giving to the wider community.

We want to make a difference to society. We do this through delivering Positive Social sessions with young people, through our Charity of the Year programme and through giving away up to 20% of our profits to good causes. We recently won the Derby Telegraph Business Awards Contribution to the Community category.

More about our values:

Our business is driven by its nine values and we are looking for team members who share them. They will be discussed at your three-monthly appraisals, they are talked about during every new prospect meeting, and they’re emblazoned on our studio wall. We expect you to stick to them, no matter what.

Honesty: We are not looking for perfect human beings. But what we do want are people who understand the importance of telling the truth at all times, even when they get things wrong.

Ethical: That means doing what’s right, what’s best for the client, and what’s best for Status Social and the team.

Excellence: We expect you to go above and beyond what is expected by us and the clients. We are no ordinary social media consultancy and you will need to be extraordinary with us.

Teamwork: Everyone is part of the team at Status Social. Which means we stick together, we support each other and we help each other to grow. We work really hard together, with everyone pulling their weight.

Open Feedback: We don’t expect you to ever criticise another member of the team behind their back. We do expect you to tell them constructively, in the right way and at the right time when things don’t quite go right. And that means being open with everybody at Status Social.

Creativity: Life is boring when it’s not creative. We expect you to regularly come up with great ideas, whether for social media, for our clients, or to make Status Social even better.

Accuracy: We work for national and international companies. They expect perfectly-written social media content. They don’t want to see spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. And neither do we.

Plain speaking: We don’t like bamboozling our clients with long-words to make us feel important. So we don’t. We also speak plainly when we address each other. It’s just the way we are.

Fun: Having fun at work is really important to us. We want people to enjoy their job. That’s why we don’t let people work their birthdays, we close the business down to go to beer festivals, we have official lie-in days and we have team days out walking in the countryside.

How to apply

We don’t think we can really tell the whole story of the job here so we welcome (and in fact, encourage) interested candidates to call one of our directors, Mark and Kerry, to find out more before applying.

After you’ve spoken to one of the directors, send the following to kerry@statussocial.co.uk:

– An explanation of why you are the right person for the job, using the above requirements and providing evidence.

– A blog of no more than 400 words about any aspect of social media for business – the more original, the better.

About us

Status Social was one of the first specialist social media consultancies in the UK. Since 2011 we have trained more than 2000 business people how to generate leads, increase brand awareness and improve customer service through social media.

We have helped some of the UK’s top companies, including Vision Express, Marriott Hotels, East Midlands Trains, Close Brothers and Saniflo to formulate social media strategies and we manage accounts for businesses who love seeing return-on-investment from their social media.

We have been finalists in the Derby Telegraph Business Awards four times in the last four years, won Contribution to the Community in 2018, won Creative Business of the Year in 2016, and one of the team has been named in Derbyshire’s Inspirational 250 business people three years in a row.